[CentOS] Update of cloud-init in CentOS 7 Extras

Thu Jul 13 10:07:22 UTC 2017
Pierre Riteau <priteau at uchicago.edu>

> On 13 Jul 2017, at 01:55, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> On 07/12/2017 02:02 PM, Pierre Riteau wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The version of cloud-init packaged in CentOS 7 Extras is rather old (0.7.5, which was released in 2014). It is missing some functionality that we would like to use, as well as important bug fixes.
>> Before I tackle rebuilding the package myself, I would like to know if there is a plan to update extras to a newer cloud-init version, or if has anyone has already updated cloud-init and would be happy to share the spec?
>> 
> 
> I have just created a newer one for testing .. it is here:
> 
> 
> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-extras/cloud-init/20170705233059/0.7.9-3.el7.centos.x86_64/
> 
> See if that one works for you and provide us some feedback .. it is
> version 0.7.9-3.el7.centos
> 
> Once we get some positive feedback and work out any bugs, this one will
> get released.

Thanks a lot Johnny! We will test and report our findings :-)

Pierre Riteau
Chameleon Lead DevOps Engineer